TechDays 2012 Belgium

Celebrate 10 years of Microsoft TechDays in Belgium! Year after year thousands of technology professionals come together to network with peers and experts, while diving deep into Microsoft technologies and learning about the latest products and solutions. TechDays is the biggest technical event in Belgium & Luxembourg and not to be missed.

Looking for the IT Pro sessions from TechDays 2012? You can find them here on TechNet Edge.

ASP.NET MVC 4 is a significant release shipping later this year that brings with it some exciting new capabilities. Learn about the new Web API support it enables, great new features for building mobile and HTML5 applications, async language integration, web sockets, and more.

There are two kinds of developers: those who know HTML5, and those who will be learning HTML5. Has your day job kept you too busy with mundane tasks to devote time to the most talked-about technology in years? Let us help by immersing you in HTML5 for 90 glorious, fun-filled minutes. Includes coverage...

Until now, the VB and C# compilers have been used as black boxes. You put text in, and you get out a binary file. In our long-lead project, codename “Roslyn”, we’ll be changing that dynamic by building an API that exposes our compilers’ analysis engines. In this session, we’ll give an overview of the...

Windows Phone 7 is a great platform, but the greatest challenge facing mobile developers today is writing apps that run on all the popular mobile platforms. With HTML5 and PhoneGap, you can write apps that exploit native features of the operating system and run on a wide range of devices. And the recently...

Almost all HTML5 and web applications today make use of AJAX to communicate between client and server. AJAX is great with asynchronous operations, but what about real-time communication? How would you push a message from server to client? HTML5 WebSockets offer a solution to all of these questions but...

The first session dives right into what’s new in the platform and in Visual Studio tooling for web development. We’ll cover the new HTML, JavaScript and CSS editors and use the new Page Inspector to debug HTML output and more. This session finishes with ASP.NET Web Pages 2 in combination with the Razor...

In this session you’ll learn about the new features coming to ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms. We’ll dive into the powers of new data-related improvements in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms like model binders, strongly typed data controls and unobtrusive JavaScript validation. We will look at the new support for HTML5 in...

Learn how Visual Studio 11 powers HTML5 development with new tooling and framework features. We’ll dive into some HTML5 specifics like the drawing capabilities of canvas, the geolocation API, HTML5 local storage and offline web applications.

WebSockets is an emerging standard that enables real-time and bidirectional communication across the Web. You will learn how HTML5 web applications can make dramatic improvements in terms of user experience and performance by taking advantage of this technology. In this session we will focus on the new...